However, El Torete made a fatal error. Instead of fleeing the country immediately, he decided to celebrate. He threw a lavish party for local criminals in a villa outside Alicante. The guard he bribed, feeling underpaid, tipped off the police not to the location, but to El Torete’s new girlfriend. The police bugged her phone. They didn’t arrest him at the vault; they waited for him to spend the money, building a case for "aggravated robbery with criminal organization."
Historians estimate the take was colossal: nearly 200 million pesetas (over €1.2 million today) in cash, gold coins, and uncut diamonds. It was a masterpiece. los ultimos golpes de el torete